The Three-Headed "Jesus" Problem

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The fact that the gospels include a bunch of supernatural nonsense certainly detracts from their credibility, but they have almost no credibility in the first place.

Of course there were loads of people around that time who the story could be said to be roughly based on, with a correlation of about 1-5%. The point is, highlighting a single one of those and calling him "the historical Jesus" is rather arbitrary. Even the gospel authors did not know who they were writing about, so how can we know who they were writing about?